Cape Philippi

Cape Philippi
Geographical location
Coordinates	75 ° 14 ′  S , 162 ° 33 ′  E Coordinates: 75 ° 14 ′  S , 162 ° 33 ′  E
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
coast	Scott coast
Waters	Ross Sea
Waters 2	David Glacier
height	490 m

The chapter Philippine is a 490  m high top cliff on the Scott-coast of the east Antarctic Victoria Land . The cape marks the eastern end of the D'Urville Wall and the north side of the mouth of the David Glacier in the Ross Sea in the form of the Drygalski ice tongue .

The cape was discovered by participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . It is named after the German geologist Emil Philippi (1871–1910), a member of the Gauss expedition (1901–1903).

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Cape Philippi in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Cape Philippi on geographic.org (English)
• Cape Philippi. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, pp. 241–242 (English)